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Healing injuries in club sports can get creative

By Korey Peterson | November 29, 2010

Injuries are an inevitable part of the sports world. Athletes from pee wee to professional leagues use their bodies for competition, making these injury risks unavoidable. As players get older, faster, bigger and stronger, injuries become regular, if...

Photographer Mike Kitchell takes a shot a writing

By Tony Martin | October 31, 2010

Mike Kitchell, a 2009 NIU graduate with a BFA in photography, is published. Despite the fact that his degree is in a more visual form of storytelling, his recent tour showed off his knack for the written word. Kitchell is already a published writer who...

Wastelanders strike loud, ambient chord

By Tony Martin | September 28, 2010

Wastelanders is the one-man side-project of Dean Costello of Chicago metal mainstays Harpoon, and his newest record, "Wastelanders II: Cosmic Despair" is about to be re-released this fall. To use the word "ethereal" in describing Wastelanders would sell...